// She Gave Him Sex...

Note: I've decided to gift myself with something new for this blog.

I call them Slashes.

You'll be able to tell that you are reading one, because you'll see the // symbols in the title.

They're fictional. They vary in length. And they're intended to capture a sentance or idea or short story concept that I don't have time or interest in fully developing. The interesting turn of phrase or character sketch that I don't have a use for, at this time. But don't want to lose entirely.

And like slashes with a sword, they're intended to strike quickly and with as much accuracy as I can manage. They cut fast and sharp.

This is the only time I intend to explain this.

"She gave him sex like other people shop for AAA batteries.
As an afterthought.
When she was focused on other things. And thought that a little bit of sex might be just the thing to take the edge off.

For him, the sex, when it was offered, came out of nowhere. Like a New York mugging. Actually, to say that she mugged him was entirely accurate. She struck quickly, without warning, roughed him up, took what she wanted and then was gone again, for days and weeks thereafter.

No contact.
No calls.
No visits.
Nothing.
And then suddenly, BLAMMO, she would come up to him in the bar, take him by the necktie and pull him out into the cold city air and take him. Again.

Jesus, the wonderfully horrible things she would whisper to him, while he struggled to maintain his balance against a garbage dumpster and her hands were busy doing the Devils Work.

Afterwards, he would be too busy searching the alley way for his glasses to see her walk away from him. But he could hear the clicks of her heels on the cobblestone, charging briskly away from the scene of the crime.

And if he had any complaints with this arrangement, he never voiced them. Perhaps he suffered his opinions silently to himself. Such an arrangement couldn't be satisfactory to someone who wanted more than the occasional drive-by molestation.

And yet, he accepted that this was the chief drawback to dating someone 11 years his junior..."